4to. xi, 541 pp., [1], numerous plates & plans in and hors text, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, marbled endpapers, title gilt on spine, biblio, index, Bookplate of J C Musso, remainder of small sticker on lower spine, otherwise copy clean & in very good condition. There were 3000 copies of this edition, of which the first 2000 copies were numbered and reserved to the General Governor of Algeria, of which this copy is numbered 1684, Art et Metiers Graphiques, Paris, first edition, 1954.

Synopsis

Great attention is given to architectural details illustrated with line drawings throughout the text. The book includes extensive chapter on the Great Mosque of Córdoba. and the architect in Toledo and the Alhambra de Granada. [Creswell 327; Not in Palau.]